The Sun. — London, England, 1838-06-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1838. DEP ARTU RE OF THE GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHIP. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. PORTSIIFAU, NEAR 1311ISTOL, JUNE 3. compliance with a promise cheerfully made, in , c) nseritience of the very full accounts conveyed to the pub 'l,c, throu g h th e me di um o f your co l umns , o f our fi rst trans tlantic expedition, I acquaint you that the Great Western w eLe'hed anchor at about 5, P.M. yesterday, having first re telveJ the contents of three small steamers, containing pas te n gcrs, and their friends, their luggage, a large quantity " of ‘1 Tlce rY hoods, a n d valuable parcels,' with some specie, &c. Direetors.of the Company also came on board with "Passenger s . The Lion steamer had been despatched to take a station so Tile twenty m il es d own th e Ch anne l, an d the Cambria, after unloading, also went a-head. The whole length of the beautiful headland called Ports -4(1 Point was studded at intervals with parties. Vehicles ; "cry description were in request, and the rocks and r m • ° °ds• as vi ewe d f r o m th e ship, with the numerous p ;11‘? Parties, had an unique and beautiful appearance. The 1 P went off in good trim and good style, very soon passing „nd u leaving the little Cambria. She was freighted with bets er ~'411700 tons of coal, 100 to of heavy, and about the same Ttantity of measurement goods, a small quantity of specie, and 11 a larg e quant i ty o f sa l ua bl e p arce l s , l e tt ers , an d papers. • l e number of berths taken was 70, but two families hav tinj(in consequence of news of deaths brought after their a u were on board)returned in one of the steam-packets. I 1 T he Directors, abl e t o g i ve you , f rom t hi s s p o t, th e e x act number. tlic Directors, and the friends and relations of the passen gers, left h er i n t h e P a l mers t on , f or w hi c h vessel the Great H ester ) lay to about twenty minutes three miles below the t- °l mes. I think it right to mention this for the informa ' of the f r i en d s o f passengers, as a steamer at a stand :tln l• blowing off steam, in sight of two shores studded 4 ` t h gazers, is apt in these times to be magnified into a %witt y , or an accident. t } l e I would advise your friends not to run away with le idea that the Great Western must on this occasion ar. ti 'e beibre the Sirius, because she drubbed her soundly in t last. The start the Sirius has is probably as great now t 's l . it was i n A pr il, a l i h nug h th e ti me i s l e s s by half. / the Si r i us sa il e d f rom C or k 48 h ours b e ore the Great , estern sailed from Bristol, she ought to have : been 650 miles in advance. It should not be forgotten that power 4 , 1 41 capacity t e ll i n a d o uble ratio in bad weather that they cl in fine ' the voyages of each will probably be in fine Feather at this time of the year. The parting scene be , ne en the two steamers and their passengers, was exciting, A merica n ch eers t h at ma d e th e wa t ers soon ceho them, the c lalerica n B rass B an d pl a yi ng a lt er nately " God save the " Yankey Doodle," and " Rule Britannia." Your obedient Servant, C. CLAXTON, Managing Director. (FP.ONE ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.) C) 3III STOL, SATURDAY.—This being the day a ; p ointed for the I re " Western to nail, and the al rangementsand preparations ur the voyage being 'oily completed at the stated hour , the l i r te . a ra-boai s David a ad the Cambria were dispatched 1, -( : , 111 Cumberland Basin to the Roads with the passengers and egage to join the Great Western. By the kind permission of nirectors of the Company, and Lieut. Hosken, R.N., the c i ' v tr ' t i , anding officer, we were enabled to board the Great eta revs, and proceed with her about fifty miles down the ll' th,a' n nel, we are therefore able to describe, as eye witnesses, trianner in which this noble vessel commenced her second and the incidents connected with it. At two o'clock, Ca r ~ Gr the p as s eng ers began to assemble on board the an to steamer, and were received by Mr. Thorne, the p ent for the proprietors of that boat, and every attention was af t and accommodation afforded. The Post-office bags soon f r , e ,,, r arrived, and shortly before three o'clock the boat started k tl - e the Basin. To a stranger who is merely a spectator, 111, 0 w hose Lcsom is free front those emotions consequent fr, a several:cc from his native land, and from his dearest an d tile gran3eur and sublimity of the stupendous rocks, ku the vari e ty an d beauty of the scenery down the Avon, t a l s afford great dei!glit. Amor.g the passengers were seve te,,e,gant lad surrounding sceneryies, and ,ae saw their friends directing their at ;;on to the . . 11, e on after four o'clock we were all safe on board the Great tA . 84 " a, and, considering the lmrry inseparable from an oc ,a, n of this sort, we were as comfortably situated as cold l i e t 7 i sheti—not the slightest accident occurred, aud there was ai ti e aPpareatt confusion; the deck, it is true, was covered baggage, &c., but this we were informed would be en -1 removed in less than twenty-four hours. While the I ) , sa lngers were embarking on board the steam-ship. The t,,.teLY r "'l on b o ard the Cambria played " Hearts of Oak." These. k 4 lns were succeeded by the rougher, but not less animating, Ih 4 nds of " Cherrily, Cherrily, Ho," given most heartily by cr ew while they were engaged in heaving the anchor. 411,141 Y after the band of the Great Western struck up, " The 'c'es weighed," and we were fairly off. At this moment li aa "eene was truly animating ; the ships lying in the roads Catl'.aisted their colours, the flags of the Great Western were tle i „ in gracefully in a gentle breeze from the west , and her tl, e r "" t ere was hailed with cheers by the different crews and 4rgetaters, whi c h were responded to by the crew and passen f'f the Great .Western. When we came opposite to rlead, a distance of about two miles from the roads, the fr o4l 4ui L tants titona• the shore, and several ladies and gentlemen % Ni t " window's of their different " . seats," greeted us with nued cheers, waving of handkerchiefs and flags, and shouts 4, 4 84e Ce53 to the Great 'Western, while the band played " Oh 14 - " Y fair," and the cheers were repeated from on board. At this fo% 4l . erit we passed the Cambria steamer, which had been sent ta t n a rd to bring back those ladies and gentlemen who were b lp ing to New York. At six o'clock the passengers and . 'sts dined in the spacious saloon, where 150 may dine with i t ; ) ,fort ; and which is most chastely and superbly fitted up dinner and wines were excellent. There are upwards of qty passengers on board-6S paid to go, but one family cot,- 4 •Ing of three persons, was prevented going by the death of ' eea n eat'relative. A mong t h e passengera were the H on. wh aluel Ca nar d, an d Messrs. Lynch and Carpender, U. S. N., eatne over to inspect the working of the Great Western, ' L ' have been received at the Admiralty ; Captain Kennedy la a ' ll Sen and Lady ; Mr. and Mrs. Oliver ; Mr. and Mrs. 4" r Pier, and daughter ; J. R. Priestly, and Miss Priestly ; a, v Burst, and Mrs. Aihuson. Among the visitors were t` oral ladie s , five of the Directors—i. e. R. Bright, T. R. N1 3 1 5 3'. T. Kington, and .J. Codwia, Esqrs., and Captain tl ie )( 1 0 11. IL N., the Managing Director ; Captain Elton, of Mr. Aiken, Mr. Patterson, the builder of the eat Western ; and Mr. Bond, engineer. l eve l, 'e cloth having been removed, and the band having played N a ' aid al Popular airs, and the most ardent wishes for the sue prosperous voyage of the ship having been expressed, visitors prepared reluctantly to leave her, and at about a d e `r befor e e i g ht o 'clock, being nearly opposite to Mine °aPtain Claxton hailed the Palmerston steamer from At - t e a, which soon came alongside and took us on board. - ',L I time th e b an d played " Yankee Doodle." We now , last time, gave three hearty cheers for the Great tit Ce , e n, which •.vere re-echoed from on board , and as soon as tl:necring had subsided the band played " God save the Cr -ev ' The ci:eering was again renewed, when the IVeste, , •n, being righted, went off at full speed in tal e 4 superb 'st s t yle . The baud again struck up, as the 41 1 e " Yank e e Doodle." In a few minutes, however, a nd t . 4 ,4 away before our view, except the column of smoke to b "e track sh e in ae . ;. , upon the water, which we appeared o f i r ettacin The G r ,eat Western had on board half a ton tar °l(l stLie, being, we balieve , about 62,720 sovereigns, ,a oo w e are informed there were oat board from the Post-office b unt letters an d parce l s , an d front t c Great Western Office eft &MO, besides a great many newspapers. The Sirius Na g e ° rk on Th urs d a y afternoon at four o'clock, being full of a qr m gers. A great many bets hate Lean made that the 11: 4 Western will arrive first at New York this voyage. Y °r h e w steamer to be built to ply between Bristol and New the same Company and the same builder, is to be 1 4 44 ``,the City of New York, and will be of greater tonnage Sb tl e, Great Western. c kt.:,,nas shipped enough of coal this voyage , t o steam her 11 44, - , 1 ` 4 home. Among the parcels on board, •we saw a g reat Containing music and books, which by this c onve y ance, t,hib-eacif New York nearly as soon as they will the remote of England and Wales ! 'c'tt e Gre a t W estern was advertised to leave King-road, at der k, p.m , and at five minutes past she was fairly un -elgh, thus starting with the precision of a Mail. LARI4ING STATE OF THE COUNTRY. 11 4 1 1 11 ,, -77 ie Sun of inda • last, find recorded " A dreadful followed Monday ) cuicid ' e in Berner's Mews ; The or a female" in W ' aterlL-terrace ; " the e xceu b tioi m i of et tp ti; ' eTr eY, for two of the most hideous murders to . a fir e criminal calendar of Scotland," and " A mui . d e erous a I Y at 4 i ..Preston," in which about eight hundred Englishmen eot t r ishorten fought with guns, pistols, knives, and scythes, the t Q4, c luentse of which Was that six or eight Englislime.n d a verous gun-shot wounds--some had their ` • •‘'e rlt " r °lien,., - .'sQme their skulls fractured, and upwardsd,od t t l IQ v;ere . severely, if not dangerously wouh , etar,l was kilL'A outright, and a verdict of manslaughter ri ",Nod e " aerairutt some person unknown. About the same "'eti - a number ' 7 n lishmen were sentenced at the Mid. oq ex of .1 ! g Sessions sorn to various punishments for an atrocious attack a mallharil.working Irishmen, who would rather labour for " L tat; ,: v ages than b eg or_ starve, and there is also recorded a s't)t () ‘ 3 l , 4l acc oun t of Newark ' setting forth that in that ea ses g " alone, there had been not less than 17,784 decided 4 ft of drunkenness in one year. On Friday, four day s l ' l4 e rll' i ardS we find it recorded that a bloody etTray took 14 e 'n Kent, t h e centre o f Ch ure l t - o f-Englandism, and near 1 4 , 1t vii era b ie Cathedral, from whose towers arc seen Protes tlttChitrehes all aroni d, " thick as autumn al leaves that the brooks of b " In :his affray ten persons fete filled, Vella. , rn • - , „l e „ about the same number were taken pilsoner:s, and tw;ce the number seriously wounded, WAll the qurd the such an authenticated list of atrocities corn- Iti, ti fiitt ed withi n a similar period in that gotintry where, Orange 41:e 8 , 4 .7, there is no security for life, and " surpliced ruffians" r :t:' •41' ` )(181 Y employed in 'teaching their fotiti.G,wers to murder Th -stenta? \ ' lo ll 7 ‘ le lie admitted to the Illuminated uotil tell o•otsufk. tc-merrow, of the spbenclid appentlagos t ' G a i t or Mr - Blicke, itege:lt-stieet, opposite .. to Mr. Nash's 41. erY, by catalog 'leg, which will acli4,4; OA: persons.. Si qtob . Bell paired off with Mr—Clne4 ;p favour of on Poop, motio n on the Municipal Bill on Fr 41 ANIMAL MAGNETISM AT THE NORTH LONDON HOSPITAL, On Saturday last Dr. Elliotson delivered a lecture upon what is called Animal Magnetism, at the North London Hospital, illustrated by the exhibition of phenomena, wholly inexplicable upon any principles, physical or moral, which science or philosophy at present recognise. Before we proceed to give a report of the lecture and experiments, it may be satisfactory to many readers to depart a little from the usual form of reporting, prefacing a few words respectingthe subject itself, and to explain away mistakes into which most people we believe are led, by the inappro priate name of Animal Magnetism, by which it is usually spoken of'. It is true that when Frederick Mesmer (a young Swiss physician, and a zealous advocate of the doctrine of plane tary influence on the human body) discovered, or professed to discover, in 1773, that by certain means oneindividualcould exercise an influence over the health and actions of another without contact or visible communication, and without the will or even the consciousness of the person so influenced, he, at first attributed this power to magnetism, and used metallic tractors, or magnetized iron•rods, as the means of bringing it into operation. But in his public experiments it did not appear that any of the results produced depended upon the mineral instruments, as the same results appeared in every case to be equally produced by the motion of his hands, and even by his look. However, the mystery which he observed, and the flagrant quackery of all his proceed ings, brought upon him the contempt of all sensible persons, and induced men of science to regard the extraordinary facts which he unquestionably did exhibit, to the effects of imagination in most cases, and to collusion in the others. The animal influence which he professed to have discovered was regarded by the whole scientific world as having no existence, but in the disordered minds of his dupes. In 18:26, however, the subject was again forced upon the attention of men of science in Paris, by Messrs. 'Trois sac and Dupotet, men of high character for skill, experi ence, and integrity ; and in compliance with their request a committee of medical men and naturalists was appointed by the Royal Academy of Science, to investigate the truth of their statements, and-to watch their experiments. In June 1881, the Commissioners reported the result of their observations to the Academy, and detailed a vast number of eases, altogether in favour of the despised pretensions of Mesmer and his followers. The facts which they reported were such as could be accounted for upon no understood principle, and even upon the unexceptionable authority of those eminent men who drew up the report, could scarcely, if at all, be credited by any one who did not witness them : and precisely of the same character are the facts which we witnessed at the London Hospital, and have now to re port. Here let it be observed, that Magnetism has nothing at all to do with the matter—the operator undergoes no magnetic process, and he uses no magnet in his opera'ions. The influence (if it exist at all) exists naturally in the animal body, and, it would appear, in every human body ; that is to say, the:advocates of the theory aflirm that every person may be an operator, although every person cannot be operated upon. The application of very powerful mineral magnets to the treatment of rheumatism, tic dolereux, and nervous affec- tions generally, as practiced lately, and is some recorded cases with decided success, by Dr. E. Straw Blundel, Dr. Kyli, and others, has no relation to the press nt subject, and is no more mysterious, although its effects are less palpable, than the application of electricity to the human body. The subject of Dr. Elliotson's lecture may therefore more pro per:), be called Mesmerism, as the Doctor himself calls it, after the name of the discoverer, until it be either driven from the field of science, or its true character being ascer tained, shall enable us to give it an appropriate and ex pressive designation. The term magnetism in no respect applies to it. On Saturday, three o'clock was appointed for the lec ture ; but soon after two o'clock the theatre was filled, and even the area, which, on the present occasion more than any other ought to have been as little intruded upon as possible, but left free to the lecturer and his patients, was crowded with Noblemen, Members of Parliament, and men of science ; amongst them were Earl Stanhope, Lord Seaford, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Wilton, Lord Oxmanton, Lord Northland, Lord Mansfield, the Bishop of Norwich, Mr. Roebuck, Mr. Herbert Mayo, Mr. Thomas Moore (the poet), Professor Grant, Dr. Lardner, &c. Dr. ELLIOTSON addressed the auditory as follows am one of those who are satisfied that influence may be exerted by one animal, whether human or brute, upon another individual, independently of the individual who is affected being aware of the operation. The influence may be exerted independently of sense and emotion on the part of the person affected. I have seen this over and over again, when the persons affected were wholly unaware of what was being done—when they were asleep. I have seen it, when the patient was in the coma of a fit, most evidently, and could not be aware that any one was about to operate. In the instance before you—(pointing to two young men, each about twenty years of age, who were sit ting upon chairs beside him)—you will see that I am obliged to do so. for the most part with the knowledge of the patients. However, I shall endeavour to operate upon them with their knowledge. The effect is various in diffe rent cases ; and it sometimes happens, when we take the greatest pains, we can produce no effect ; whereas in other cases the effect is immediate, upon persons who know no thing of what we are doing. Even when they may know what we are doing, they do not know exactly what is about to take place. Thus, when two boys, both epileptic, have held hands, the head of one of them (who had never heard of any such effect) was drooped—his upper eyelids began to shake, and he became sleepy ; not indeed in sound sleep, but in the state of one who felt a tendency to sleep, and could not keep the eyes open. This was always the case, when a gentle man going quietly behind him, when he was not aware, but was engaged in talking, made a certain motion with his hand. Sometimes this has been done whilst he had in his hands a number of things, which he immediately let fall upon my moving my hand towards him. The same thing was done to the other boy, who was about the same age, and subject to the same kind of fits. But in his case there was no effect, or very little. The first boy, who was.easily affected, had been subject to fits a very long time. He had two fits every day for nine weeks previous to his ad mission. But he never had a tit after he was admitted into the hospital, and was for the first time subjected to this simple process of holding the hand near to his head. His name was William Reid. He was admitted on the 12th of May, 1837, and when he had been a month in the hospital he would not stay any longer. He said he was quite cured. The other boy could not be affected, and he went away believing that he could not be cured. The two boys now before you correspond with those cases. One of them fell perfectly asleep at once. But the other has not been affected.—(The boy here said : Orly that I have a little headache at the time.") Dr. E. then stood before the other youth, and moved his open hand, opposite to his face, first pointing the fingers towards the boys forehead, and then dropping it gradually towards his chest. He repeated this process several times. The boy's head began to nod—his eyelids closed—his mouth was partly opened, and at length his head fell back, and he sank into a sound sleep. The doctor then proceeded :—lt appears that Mesmerism sends him to sleep in about two minutes and a half. His fits diminished froth the first operation to one a-day ; but from May 23 to June 2, he has had no fit. He is not now in a state of coma, but can be easily awakened. [lt was however with some difficulty he was roused ; and then he appeared exceedingly heavy and a t first could not open his eyes. Dr. E. pointed the fore finger of each hand opposite to the youth's upper eyelids, a few inches distant, and as he raised the fingers upwards the lids rose, to all appearance involuntarily, the eyes opened, and the stupor went off.] This (continued the Professor) is the smallest effect that is produced, and the most ordi nary. In the next two cases the effect is great. One is that of a yohng woman, who is epileptic. The other is a case of lock-jaw, which used to occur every otht r day. It was not of a dangerous kind. It would never have killed the girl, It was hysterical lock-jaw. Ann Ross is the epi leptic patient—she bad a fit every fortnight, which lasted a quarter of an hour ; and every day after the day of the fit she had involuntary movements, without being comatose. She has now been in the hospital a month, and every in voluntary motion has ceased. The other girl has had but two tits since her admission ; but she used to have her jaw locked every other day for five hours, This paroxysm has become leas frequent since the 1 1 th of May, when she was admitted. She has not had one these three weeks, and nothing has been done to her but mes merism.—[Here Dr. E. repeate d t h e movemen t of his hand opposite the girl's face, as in the former cases, and in two or three seconds, she fell into deep stupor, resembling deep, an d would have fallen from the chair, upan which she was sitting, had not Lora Northland who sat near, caught her by the arm and raised her uprizirt. In the mean time Mr. Wood (one of the surgeons of the Hospital), was prac tising the tioweraent of the hand, already described optiosi43 the back of the other gi4's head, and she also, though not seeing the movement or apperiftrii to I , e conscious of it be came tic,7,wsy, and in about a minute fell ititc tic r e same state of stupor or zir,ep, The Doctor stated that it was ten day. - ,. before the lock yawed girl :repled to be sensibly affected by mesmerism, but now the efieet !vas instantaneous. The two girls were awakened one by the semi; prag%g which h a d s et her asleep, and the other by Dr. E. breathing in her f„„ ; a ft e r ohjela the patients retired and the Lec turer proceeded.] A girl d4Z go . qle into the h os pit a l a ff e cted with St. Vitus's dance. No rnediwrag 11,1 - been given to her, the only means of cure attempted tias irc - en tLis with the .exce,v4r:,that the nurse gave her on ce a little purmjypWlt::;tt forbidden h er to d o again. Th e rneeme , r 4r4 .bail no scnsktme eprea ttpßn her, but she has imprinii4 m.cri 47: her 'lirliad-.li)as become steady and now she can do needle-work. I have found that even when no sensible eff:.ct is producA, yet ae nervous complaint gives way, and the paroxysms become milder ; but when the effect is sensible, the recovery is ob vious. Earl STANHOPE asked how long the sleep wculd continue if not purposely interrupted. Dr. ELLIOTSON—I cannot exactly say ; but I have known it last three hours. They are awakened by rubbing the eyelids, and over the brows, or by breathing in the face. In fact, the same process of waving the hand, or breathing in the face, will set them asleep in the first instance, and awaken them afterwards. We had here a girl who had hysterical delirium. She was very bad, and when she came in, as the case was so decided, she was bled, but she got no better. On the third day we tried Mesmerism. No sleep was produced ; but in six hours there was a decided im provement, and she went out last week, perfectly well. There are two epileptic patients, subject besides to extra ordinary nervous symptoms, and to " delirium," in which they cannot speak English. They do not forget the lan guage altogether, but they cannot in that state speak it correctly. They show great stupidity ; and yet they an swer questions with great shrewdness. When they are in this state the surface of the body is utterly insensible. You may pinch the skin as severely as possible, or prick them as deeply as you please, without their feeling it. In fact the interior of their bodies is insensible ; for the eleeftic fluid is passed through them without the slightest effect. When the machine has been so charged that a healthy young man could not endure the shock, it has had no effect upon them. They put their hands upon the cylind. r, and as it was turned round, they only laughed, and said " Oh, what a rummy noise !" The Leyden phial also had no effect. They took it in their hands, and, when it was discharged, one of them said, " Oh, I see the sparks." But th e shock had no effect. We can produce that state at any time, and put an end to it at any time. But it also comes on spontaneously. The two girls were here introduced. The elder seemed to be about fourteen years of age—thin, pale, and sallow— but having rather pretty features, and a very mild modest manner. The younger (who was her sister) ap peared to be about twelve years old—but stronger than the other, and having a somewhat wild and bold ex pression of face. Dr. Elliotson said they were very good girls, and very clever. They were then in the natural state, and their gentle and respectful demeanour, especially that of the elder, was remarkably different from the viva city, archness, and familiarity with which they behaved afterwards when mesmerised. He explained tliat they were subject to three distinct states besides the natural one. First they could be thrown into a state of complete stupor or coma, by mesmerism, after which they passed into a state of delirium, and there was a third state intermediate between those two, which was that of somnambulism. In that state they recollected everything which occurred to them when they were in it before. But they recollected nothing else, except, indeed, the language, their own names, and the persons most familiar to them ; and being taken out of it, they recollected nothing that occurred whilst they were in it. He could put them into that state in a moment, and as readily take them out of it ; and it would last until he or others stopped it. It had lasted with one of them twelve days. In her state of somnambulism, she any thing hi s n e g e a little and walk ; but she would go up against n that was in her way, and would fall down if not supported. She would answer questions in a low whisper, and had made communications respecting her own health and her suscep tibility to mesmerism. - She had (whilst in that state) ex plained other modes by which it could be brought on her besides those usuelly practised. She had also said that she would have no more fits, and that on the 14th of June she would be perfectly cured. Whilst the Professor was speaking, Mr. Wood, who we understood, first drew Dr. Elliotson's attention to the prac ticability of exercising the mesmeric influence, moved his hands behind the backs of the girls, and they fell each into a state of profound sleep. They were then pinched, vio lently shaken, and pulled by the arms, not only by the Professor, but by several of the Noblemen and Gentlemen around, without manifesting the slightest degree of sen sibility. But by breathing upon their hands they were in stantly awakened, when they exhibited a delirious vivacity and boldness, in remarkable contrast to their gentleness in the natural state. In the elder girl the contrast wag most striking—she sang, whistled, and jested with Dr. E. and with Lords Wilton and Stanhope, with the familiarity of a playful and petted child amongst her own family, and she displayed not only great archness, but wit and humour. In the midst of her liveliest sallies, however, Dr. E. sud denly pointed the fore-finger of one hand at her fore head, and on the instant she stood immovable as a statue, and evidently in a state of utter un consciousness. He then pointed a finger at each upper eye-lid, and as he raised the fingers (several inches from her face) the lids rose also, to the utmost extent exposing the whole eye-ball—and so they remained fixed, the body standing motionless. In the same manner pointing one finger opposite the upper lip, and another opposite the chin, he raised the one finger upwards and the other downwards with a quick movement, and the mouth opened ; and she stood still, in that posture, until he breathed upon her face ; when she suddenly started into consciousness and began to dance, sing, and jest as before. Whilst the eyelids were wide apart--further than they could be extended by any voluntary effort—and the eye balls exposed to the strong light from above, the pupils were very much contracted. This would of course natu rally take place under such a light. But what is extra ordinary is, that when the Professor p )inted his fingers op posite the eyes, and then moved his fingers to and fro, the pu pils (notwithstanding the light) expanded to a great size, and were again and again contracted and expanded in the same situation, and by the same process. Can imagination or collusion have any thing to do in this? She was afterwards repeatedly struck motionless, on the instant, in every variety of attittule which, in h er d e li r i ous playfulness, she might happen -to assume ; and this was done not only by Dr. E. himself, but frequently when he was not aware of it, and whilst she was talking to him—by a single movement of the hand, behind her back , by Lord W ilton , Lord Northland , and others, who seemed to enjoy the exercise of their newly-discovered mesmeric powers. When she was seated in the chair, and thrown into sleep, her hands ly'ng in her lap, Dr. E. extending his arms placed a hand opposite each of hers, and then drawing his hands away, he raised them upwards and inwards towards his head. Her hands followed his until she had raised them to the level of her head, when, with a convulsive movement, she fell back in the chair in a state of coma, or torpor, more profound than the previous sleep. We observed that this phenomen on followed every experiment in which she was caused to make any physical exertion. When she was seated and asleep, Mr. Wood being behind her, placed his hands near her's, and as be drew his away her's followed them—as he raised his, she raised her's. In the same manner, as she sat asleep, her eyes being closed, Lord Wilton placed his left hand opposite to her right, and as he drew his away, per's followed, as far as her arm would extend, appa rently attracted, as a needle would follow a powerful magnet. Whilst she sat asleep, with her body leaning forward, Mr. Wood, being still behind her, pointed his hand to the back of her head, but at a distance of three or four feet, and as he retired further back, her head was raised slowly, and moved backwards in the direction of his hand as far as the top rail of the chair would allow, when she made a convul- sive effort to rise, and sank into a state of lethargy. In the same manner when feet were pointed opposite to her's, and withdrawn, her's fullowed th.mi ; and this spades of attrac tion was exercised upon her with the same effects by the surrounding spectators as well as by the medical practi tioners. Numeroas other experiments were made to elicit similar phenomena, both with this patient and her sister. Mr. Wood, kneeling down behind the chair of one of the s lepping girls, placed his thumbs behind his ears, and when his hand remained some minutes in that position, the hands of the girl began to move from her lap, and :o be raised (apparently with great effort) ; the thumbs extended back wards, as if for the purpose of imitating the action of Mr. Wood, whom she could not see, if she were awake, and her eyes open. But before they reached her ears, she had a slight convulsion, and instantly became comatose or torpid. A large sheet of thick brown paper having been held up between Dr. Elliot2on and the younger girl, he desired her to " fight at it." She did not seem to comprehend him ; but on his putting himself into a boxing attitude, with one foot advanced, she imitated exactly his attitude and move- ments, which it di] not appear that she could very well see through the paper. He dropped one hand, and she became instantly insensible ; and fixed as a statue, in the attitude of a boxer. Grimaces, also, made by persons behind the back of either girl, in the state of unconsciousness, and continued for some time,. were at length imitated by them, as it seemed, involunta rily. Dr. Elliotson stated that, on a recent occasion, when the elder girl was in the state of somnambulism, she was asked if there was any other mode of mesmerising her than those modes which had been tried, to which she answered that s he could be mesmerised by any person pressing the palms of his hands against her's ; and having re stored her to the natural state, he did, by pressing the palms of his hands against her's, throw her instantly into file sleep. This experiment was then tried in another way. Dr. Qraut went behind the door, and placed his hands with the palms fi rm l y presse d aga i ns t it, and gi)e teas caused to press her' s aga i nst t h e ot h er s id e , op posite to his, Jii a few miitutes she fell into the sleep ; but the result was not produced at all so spat) as when her hands were in actual contact with those of the operator. With one more of the phenomena exhibited on this occa sion, we most hay; d^ne, Dr, I. 7 .lliotson stated that the patients in the stiiie f lionmambulisni seetnot to hay..? a great augmentation of physical s t ren g t h, - istwel as what would appear to be_ a preternatural or prophetic power. , The elder of these two patients had been asked a week ago (whilst in that state) what weight she could lift ?—to which she answered that she could lift 100 lb., but that would hurt her arm ; and that she could lift 801 b. with case. He now put her into the somnambulist state, and her arm having been bandaged, with a board underneath and a quantity of wadding, as is done to a person with a broken arm, two weights, amounting to 841 b., were tied to it. Mr. Wood then asked her whether she could lift them ? As Er as we could judge she had no means, if she were perfectly sensible, of guessing at the weight. But, as we understood, she said that she could only lift 801bs. and that there were then 6lbs. more. In fact there were only 4lbs. more. But the weight was reduced to 701bs. Then as she sat in evident sleep, Mr. Wood (being behind her) pointed his hand to her's, and raising it, it was followed by her's, not withstanding the great weight attached to her arm, and when she could follow his hand no further is ithout standing up, she sprang upon her feet, lifting the weights considerably from the ground, but instantly fell back in a state of coma. She was then brought back to the natural state —was sprightly, showed no consciousness of what had been done-- and on being requested, attempted to lift the same weights, but by no exertion was she able to do so. Of this exhibition we have had only to report what we saw, tlithout expressing any opinion. We observed nothing that would warrant the least suspicion of deceit or collusion ; and the high character of Dr. Elliotson will be taken by most scientific men in Europe as a sufficient guarantee for the good faith of his experiments, however unaccountable they are, and opposed to all ascertained laws of animal existence. MAGAZINES-CONTINUED. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The account of the " Coronation of the kings of France prior to the Revolution," is a well-timed article, and will be sure to attract many readers. That of Charles the Tenth was—says Mr. White, the chronicler—the most magnificent ever exhibited in France, a fact which we have some little difficulty in believing, remembering the taste for pomp and pageantry that raged, like an epidemic, among the French noblesse, from the days of the Grand Monarque, down to those of the unfortunate Louis the Sixteenth. And here, while on the subject of coronations, we would advise those of our readers who may not happen to be acquainted with it, to peruse Beau Tibb's account of his preparations for appearing in the coronation of George the Third, which is one of the raciest bits of humour that Goldsmith ever penned. If we remember rightly, it will be found among his miscellaneous essays. "My Hus band's Winnings" is by Jerrold. It is a little tale, or ra ther dialogue, that inculcates a most serviceable household moral, and is written in a light, jocular, and good-hu moured spirit. It would make a capital little comedy, with a few alterations, in two acts. " A Night on the Table Mountain" is characterised by considerable descriptive vigor. " Subjects for Pictures" are poems from the practised pen of Miss Landon. The " Death of Camoens" is the most interesting of the series. We quote the cicsing stanzas. The versification is peculiar, but full of melody. Flinging far below him each meaner thought that cumbers Wishes born of wants, he lighted up life's dream With the kindling light that warms the poet's numbers— Yet arc they sung by the Tajo's sunny stream. Still was his country thz theme of his inspiring, How her bold vessels first swept the southern seas— Still was her praise the meed of his desiring, While telling how her heroes met the fierce and mighty breez?. The past and the sea triumphs— His dreams were Slid with these. How was he rewarded ?—how are such rewarded ? Those who thus lavish their inward wealth in vain ? Only one doom for the poet is recorded — A present that must buy the future with its pain. Long, long away, toss'd on the Indian billow, Dreamed he sweet songs for his lady and his land ; Pale and wan he lies on his last neglected pillow— None are near to minister with soft and soothing hand. There let the poet perish— So bath perished all his band. Heavily, heavily, his large black eyes are closing On the twi►ight loveliness they are too faint to know ; O'er that pale high forehead a shadow is reposing— Peace to the weary heart that languid beats below! From that sweet lip its old songs are departed; Take, ye wild winds, what it wont to breathe of yore— There he is dying deserted, broken hearted, Like a broken lute which no music wanders o'er, Farewell to Carnoens ! The swan will sing no more. Yet not for this in the spirit's faith I falter, Heavy though the doom be—yet glorious is the meed. Let the life be laid upon the fated altar— It is but the sacrifice of an eternal creed. Never yet was song breathed in this high believing, But, like a star, it bath floated down time's wave; While what lofty praises and tender grieving, And what noble hopes come to sanctify and save! Even such the glory, Cameos, by thy grave! " Leaves from Mr. Keeley's Journal" are amusing. They arc reminiscences of his late professional tour to America, where, we believe, this sprightly comedian was eminently successful. The most diverting portion of his journal is the sentimental paroxysm he fell into, on looking at the great Niagara Falls. Here it is. " God, how inde scribable !" quoth little Bob, " with an enjoyment too ex quisite for an attempt at description, there mingled an awe, such as I have felt in my younger days when reading of the m ysterious beings that people another and a s h a d ow y w orld. Thank Heaven, nobody spoke to me. The tears ran down my cheeks, and I am quite sure, if I had been alone, I should have thrown myself on my knees, and wept aloud." W e can imagine Bob Keeley standing convulsed with pathos, in one of his most picturesque attitudes, with his face buried in a white pocket handkerchief, beside the Falls of Niagara! The " Manager's Note 13ook" furnishes us pith some details respecting Incledon and Cook, which will be found interesting, we suspect, to none but members of the pl ()cession. ‘‘ Residence in Little Pedlington" con tains some capital hits at Auctioneers' Puffs, and the " Copyright" question. Mr. Pools is the author of this ludicrous satire. p b a ri r e i f sh v bo o ; iuss BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY . sc ene in his Oli ver T w i st, w h ere t h e poor The present nu mber is a goo ,l one. Boz, as usual, figur es foremost among the contributors, and draws one s urprized in his count r y seat b y t h e hid eous apparition of the leerin g old J ew , who is peeping in at t h e w i ndow o f the room where h e i s s i tt i ng. Cruick shank's plate, illustrative of this incident, is by no means igo one of his most successful efforts. ‘' The Widow Cured" is an amusing, well-told talc, whose leading incident, however, is borrowed from an episode in Don Quixotte. " Griffoae, a tale of the Peninsula," is from the pen of Colonel Napier, and displays much fancy. It opens with some very graceful descriptive touches. " The Windsor Ball of the latest Fashion," trundles along smoothly and agreeably enough. " A chapter on Clowns" does no more than justice to the merits of the incomparable Grimaldi. " Nights at Sea" contain one or two laughable naval anecdotes, told in the sailor's richest dialect. The " Professor of Toledo," which is the production of Delta, is a tale of the wild and the wonderful, illustrative of the superstitious character of the Spaniards in the 13th century. Some portions of the story are related with spirit, but there is rather too much exaggeration throughout it. " Dark ness" is a very respectable sample of Magazine versifica tion. ,‘ Mr. Buggins" is a sprightly sketch, bordering on caricature, but bit off with ease and vigour. The hero is a romantic tailor, who while travelling under an alias on the Continent, capivates, and nearly secures, a well dowered young lady, the daughter of a steady, old-fashioned English c ountry gentleman. Luckily, he is detected by one of his ovin .aristocratic customers, ere he can bring his matrimonial projects to maturity. This incident, it will be observed, is trite enough, but it is worked up with infi nite tact and vivacity. We have no space for extracts. MONTHLY CHRONICLE. This is a clever periodical, but there is far too'much assumption about it. The advertisement, for instance, aflixed to the present number, states with infinite pomp of m anner that the " Monthly Chronicle" has for its main ob ject t " embrace those topics which, though they interest Urge numbers of the reading public, have been usually con sidered of too grave a nature for periodicals, that rather contribute to the amusement of a peculiar class, than repre sent the interests of the general c ommunity." This is as much as to say, that all other Magazines are mere flimsy vehicles of amusement—but that this one is sage—grave— profound ;—all, in fact, that a first rate national p eri od i cal should be. N ow we have read the numbers of the 6' Monthly Chronicle" with some little attention, and must honestly confes s that, as yet, we have seen nothing in it to warrant its high, inflated tone of pretension. Its critical articles—ingenious and showy as we grant them to be — are far beneath th e average of those in Fraser ; it has no meta physical papers equal i n d e pth, subtlety and style , to those masterly ones on :,he " Th e ory of Consciousness" in Black wood ; and sure l y the melodramat i c romance of Zicci will not bear an instant's comparison with " Oliver Twist" in Bentley's Miscellany I Where then lies the prodigious and overwhelming t a l ent o f th i s M a gazine ? nubibus—and nowhere else th at we know of. As, however, its critical perspicacity i s much insisted on, we select an extract from its no:ice o f Mr. Bulwer's late tale of " Leila , o r the Fall of Granada," w hi c h w i ll ena b le our rea d er s to judge for themselves. " All this," says the Reviewer, speaking of the main incidents of the tale, " is conducted with such grace ; the scene s style ; and th ere i s so much pomp of a fi tting kind in the 4re so spi r it ua li ze d by an airy and voluptuous story such stepping in mus i c , a nd gleams of beauty, that the imaginatio n becomes rapidly filled with the voices and the motions, the grandeur and eloquence, that occupy the scene." What an absurd farrago of words, utterly desti ulzr a though;, 1 4:re 2oneeive t` stepping in inusid , "aF , itspirittaaizil.b vr'iluptubusries, to a degree that fills the iraaiinatiozitith it voices aria - Enc4ions Was ever. such stuff perpetrated since the days of the Della Crusca writers! It is fair to add that the criticism entitled "On the present state of Poetry" is of a far superior order, though even here there is much that is shallow and super ficial. The " Theatrical Notice of the Month" is well written, and many of the strictures judicious; but why in order to write up Covent Garden, is it necessary to write down Drury Lane ? Cannot Macready be eulogized but at the expence of Charles Kean ? We dislike these direct comparisons. They wear an invidious aspect. By far the ablest article in the Number is the essay " On Public Opinion." IFRAZER'S MAGAZINE. This is a better Number in every respect than any which has appeared for some months. The " Poetry of Shelley," the " Yellow Plush Correspondence," and the " Stric tures on Pictures," though as widely different from each other as can well be imagined, are, each in its peculiar vein, excellent. We have not before met with so candid an examination of Shelley's metaphysical opinions, selected and compared from passages in his poems, and in which there was so little to object to on the score of mere cant, as we have found in the few pages which Fraser, in a spirit of en larged and enlightened criticism, has this month devoted to the subject. The " Strictures on Pictures," in which the present Exhibition of the Royal Academy is most amusingly criticised, is in the form of a letter " from Michael Angelo Titmarsh, Esq., to Monsieur Anatole Victor Isidor Hyacinthe Achille Hercule de Bricabrac," a brother painter in Paris. " Our Club at Paris" is simply a dull affair. It is too serious for carica ture, and too flippant and wordy for grave criticism. Nothing " is a cutting review of a work which has ap peared in Germany under the title of " The English," by Dr. Franz Kottenkamp, which professes to embrace a view of the manners and customs of the people of thi s coun try. From the specimens quoted it is a most ridiculous performance, and evidently by an author who knows no more of society in England than he does of society in Tim buctoo. The other articles are of the usual Magazine order, with the exception of Dr. Maginn's Translations of the Homeric Ballads, which are continued in this Num ber. Few scholars of the present day are so well qualified as Dr. Maginn for the arduous task of rightly translating the songs of ancient Greece. TAIT'S MAGAZINE. Mr. De Quincey's " Recollections of Charles Lamb" are continued in this number. They are more entertain ing, because fuller of charactcrttic anecdote, than the last series ; but still there is much irrelevant matter in them ; and some circumstances are broadly stated that had far better have been left in oblivion—such, for instance, as poor Hazha's infatuated passion for the tailor's daughter in Chancery-lane, which no judicious friend would ever have dreamed of again dragging before the public. " Life of Wilberforce" is a concise and pertinent digest of the late memoirs of this clever, cautious, and not a little sly, states man. Abel O'Hara's account of his " Trip to Donny brook" is a sketch pourtrayed with considerable vigour by Mr. Banim. The " Political Postscript" is penned this month in a most dismal, and distrustful spirit. Tait, usu ally is bold and confident, but shows himself quite lachrymose on this occasion. METROPOLITAN. The Note Book of an Irish Barrister contains a care fully written Memoir of Sir William Smith, late Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland, who, it may be remembered, in the closing years of his life, made himself conspicuous by the exceeding vehemence of his politics. The biographer treats his subject in a more succinct and intelligent man ner than he is usually in the habit of doing, and is not hurried away into absurdity by his love of a striking meta phor. " Guizot" is a sensible analysis of the character of the most philosophic of French statesmen, who is just now the head—or rather one of the heads—of, what is called, the Doctrinnaire party. The character is drawn in a tem perate, impartial spirit ; but too much stress is laid, we think, on Guizot's moral and political influence. The " Loaded Dice" is a tale from the pen of Mr. Banim. It sets out with much vigour, but as yet we are scarcely ad vanced beyond the threshold of the narrative, so shall for bear offering a decided opinion till we have seen more of it. 111 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. -;,, ' (From the Hampshfre Telegraph of Saturday.) PORTSMOUTH, JUNK 2.—The Winchester, 52, Captain E. arr;ved on Wednesday, with flag of Vice. Admiral the Flom v:Vz Cape!, late Commander-in -Chief in the East Indies. 1 2 - 4.01‘. The Parmclia, transport, J. Marshal, master, Lieutenant Davison, agent, arrived on Thursday from the Isle of France, with part of the 29th regiment on board, and invalids from the 35th, 87th, 91st regi. ments, and the Royal Artillery, under charge of Captain Moore, of the 87th. The Termagant brigantine, Lieutenant Williams, and the Arrow cutter, will be ready for sea by the 10th instant; the former is destined for the west coast of Africa; the latter will be employed in surveying the Falkland Islands. The Laurel frigate has this week been taken into dock. The Orestes is ordered to be equipped as early as possible. The Blonde is quite ready for commissioning. The Indus, 74 (buiit of teak wood), which has been left untouched on the stocks for the last seven years, is ordered to be completed with as much dispatch as possible. The linaum, 74 (presented by the hilaUll of Muscat to the late Monarch) which it was contemplated to convert into a hulk, is also ordered to be fitted for active service. The sailing qualities of this ship were very favourably spoken off on her voyage from India. The Rainbow was paid off into a state of ordinary, on Tuesday, and the Dublin on Thursday. The Toronto, Captain Griswold (line of packet ship), arrrivcl/ this afternoon from the River, to take on board the mail, passengers, and stock, and will sail to.morow morning for New York. It is said the Coronation promotion will raise to the rank of Lieute nant a large proportion of the old mates. APPOINTMENTS.—Captain Charles Hamlyn Williams, to the Tribune; Commander Elliot (son of Hon. Admiral Elliot), to the Columbine ; Corn. F. M. Boulthee, Lieut. Robert Tipon ; Mr. James Penn, Acting Master ;.Mr. Jason Lardner, Surgeon; Mr. A. H. Gilbert, Purser; Mr, Alex. Ellis, Gunner; Mr. Jas. Wilson, Boatswain ; and Mr. W. Brown, Carpenter, to the Jaseur ; Mr. Lieut. A. Grant, of the Dublin, to the Madagascar ; Lieutenants Jacob Sankey and Henry Gage Morris ; Mr. Bean, Master; Mr. Giles, Purser; Dr. Lane, Surgeon ; Dr. Robert Aus. tin Bankicr, from Haslar Hospital, Assistant Surgeon, Mr. George Fle ming, Gunner; and Mr. J. Cordis, Carpenter, to the Herald; Mr. W. Everest, Mate, to the Britannia ; Mr. J. Thompson, Assistant Surgeon, • to the Tribune; Mr. IL Brown, Assistant Surgeon, to the Excellent, vice Mr. Henry Baker, appointed to the Princess Charlotte; Mr. Stephen Samuel Stanley, Assistant Surgeon, to Haslar Hospital. Major-General Sir. Maurice O'Connell, his family, and suite, will take their passage by the ship Fairlie. of 755 tons, to Sydney. They will embark at. Plymouth on the 2.3 d of July, and will touch at the Cape of Good Hope. Sir Maurice is a relation of Daniel O'Connell, Esq , M.P., and has recently been appointed Commander of the Forces in Australia. The Fairlie is now fitting in the Eastern London Docks, and is to leave, Gravesend on the Ilth of July for Plymouth, to receive her passengers, In Harbour—Britannia, 120, flag ship; Victory, 104, ordinary guard. ship; Excellent gunnery ship, Royal George yacht; Termagant gun brig; Arrow ketch ; and tenders Gossamer and Emerald. In Basin—Herald, 28. In Dock—Not any thing in commission. At Spithead—The Parmelia transport. arrow Owers—The Messenger steam-transport, a dock-yard lighter, and two lumps. (From the Devonport Independent.) PLYMOUTH, JUNE 2.—The brig Pantaloon, 10, Lieut. Commander Macdonnel, arrived on Saturday from Portsmeuth, and sailed on Sun day, for the North Coast of Spain, with a party of Marines. The sloop Modeste, 18, Commander Harry Eyres, arrived on Sun_ day from Portsmouth, and sailed on Monday for the West Indies. The Talbot, 28, Captain Codrington, was warped to her sailing moorings yesterday, and is expected to go out of harbour on Monday. The brig Rolla, 10, was warped from her moorings yesterday alongside the jetty, to be fitted for commission. The steamer Comet, Lieut. Gordon, sailed yesterday afternoon for the North Coast of Spain. The steam-frigate Salamander, Commander Duffil, is daily expected at this port from the North Coast of Spain. The steamer Meteor, Commander R. Pritchard, sailed on Sunday for Falmouth. Her Majesty's steamer Lightning, Lieut.-Com. J. Sham_ bier, having taken a supply of coals on board, sailed on Saturday for Woolwich. The steamer Columbia, Lieut.-Com. Thompson, sailed on Monday for Barbadoes. The Minden, 74, Captain A. R. Sharpe, having had her copper repaired, was taken out of dock on Monday. The Devon, lighter, arrived on Tuesday, from the North Coast of Spain. The Duck, lighter, sailed on Tuesday for Dover, with a party of the 43d depot. The Swail, tender, strived on Tuesday from Fal mouth, with stores. The Hamoaze, lighter, arrived on Sunday from Pembroke with stores. The Goodwill, lighter, arrived on Sunday with stores from Woolwich. By an order received on the 21st ult., the guard ship of the Ordinary, when short of complement and seamen cannot be procured, is at liberty to enter first-class boys not exceeding 100 in number. These boys are not to be employed as ship.keepers, but in such manner as may be most conducive to their learning the duty of seamen. 1 hey are intended to be useful and efficient, and as much as they can, to do the duty of sea men, whose places they are to occupy. The age of these boys must not be under 17 years, and not less than five feet high, and who, if they have not been at sea, are used to the boats on the sea. The Petrel packet was launched from Pembroke Dock Yard, on the 23d ult. ; her dimensions are as follows :—Length between the per. pendiculars, 95 feet, 1 inch; length of keel for tonnage, 75 feet ; breath extreme, 30 feet, 3 inches; ditto moulded, 29 feet, 6 inches ; depth of hold, 14 feet, Si inches ; burthen in tons, new measurement, 237 ; ditto, old measurement, 317. The Petrel, with Mr. Walker, As. sistant Master Attendunt, with a party of riggers and seamen of the San Josef, arrived here on Thursday. In Hamoaze.—Royal Adelaide, San Josef, Minden, Talbot, Ranger, and Weazel. The Jaseur, 16, will be commissioned in a day or two ; her comple. ment 110 men. The following officers are appointed to her :—Com mander Frederick Moore Boultbee ; Lieutenant Robert Pipon ; Mr. James Penn, Acting-Master ; Mr. A. 11. Gilbert, Purser ; Mr. Alex ander Ellis, Gunner ; Mr. James Wilson, Boatswain ; Mr. William Brown, Carpenter; Mr. •Jason Lardner, Surgeon, and Mr. Thomas Jenkins, Assistant• Surgeon. THE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. Colburn. To naval and military officers this periodical strongly recommends itself by the uniform ability with which it treats every subject connected in any way with the disci pline and tactics of the two services. Most of its contri butors are themselves officers of high standing, and we be lieve not a few of them in active service. It also embodies a mass of the most important intelligence of all the move ments, appointments, and promotions in either service. Some of the articles are very amusingly and gracefully written. The present Number opens with an historical ab stract of the late rebellion in Canada. A still better and more interesting article on the manning of the fleet follows. " Spectator's" reply to Colonel Mitchell's denunciation of the system of promotion by purchase in the British army is very far indeed from being conclusive. It is quite as ab surd to sell commissions in the army as it would be to open a shop for the sale of moral and - physical courage. Our good officers are formed in spite of the system—not in con sequence of it. THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. Holdsworth. The Review of " Lockhart's Life of Scott," with which this Number commences is very carefully and judicious'y written—a merit common to all the reviews that appear in this poriodical, Except Tait's Magazine, we know of no monthly publication in which the reviews so faithfully re flect the spirit of the works criticised as those which en rich the pages of the one now before us. " Rubi, a Tale of the Sea," iscontinued in this Number. It abounds in dramatic incident. " The Last Heir of the House of Connor," has really nothing in it to redeem the tedious relation of a very common-place occurrence. We are sick of reminiscences of duels and duellists. " Classical Authorities for Modern Trifles" is one of those articles that in the necessary toil of production cost more trouble than they are worth, unless a writer be blessed with a prodigious memory. There is no want of industry in the paper before us, and yet we could easily multiply the authorities for the use of several of the " trifles" touched upon. But for this we have neither space nor time at present. The " Orphans of Du nasker" is concluded in this Number, and we are not sorry for it. The tale has been spiritedly told, but so often " conti nued" that we remember very little about its commencement. Magazine articles to be really popular should be completed within the compass of three numbers at the very utmost. The writer of " What are the Conservative Members of Parliament about ?" will find a better answer than he has given to his own question in the last month's proceedings of the House of Commons. THE SUBURBAN GARDENER. No. Xlll. Longman and Co. One of M r . L ou d on ' s very use f u l pu bli cat i ons , we ll de serving an extensive circulation. The wood engravings are numerous, and, of the kind, uncommonly well executed. THE ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINE. Longman and Co. Of this periodical Mr. Loudon is the conductor, and it is not too much to say that it reflects credit upon the wide range of his acquaintance with architectural design, and the various branches of industry in every way connected with it. He is assisted by several of the first architects and architectural writers of the day. TEE ARBORETUM BRITANNICWIL Longman and Co. Two more Numbers, which are to appear in the course of a few days, will bring this work to a close. Having regularly noticed its progress from the appearance of the first Number to that of the sixty-first, the mere announce ment of its conclusion is all that our readers can reason ab!y expect. Of its merits we have had no reason to change our first opinion. A better work of the kind has not appeared in so cheap, and, at the same time, so conve nient a form, in the English language. MONTHLY LAW MAGAZINE. The Law Magazine contains several sound, shrewdly reasoned treatises on matters chiefly legal ; we do not, however, agree with the Editor's views respecting the " Copyright Question"—which is argued at some length in the number before us—for they appear to us to be based on error, and supported by sophistry. SPORTING MAGAZINE. The plates in this sporting periodical are always well engraved ; and few better have been executed than the two which embellish the present Number. The sketch of the Highland Loch, in particular, with its wild, cloudy, mountain back-ground, exhibits some striking effects. THE SPORTSMAN. The Number before us contains two very respectable en gravings, one of which is the " Sportsman's Present," and the other, a portrait of " Maria," which, it appears, was one of George the Fourth's favourite brood mares. Of the literary contents of the Number, we have merely time to say that they are well adapted to the tastes of those for whose use they are drawn up. Lord Howard de Walden, ambassador at Lisbon, arrived at Lord Seaford's, Audley.square, from the Portuguese capital, leaving the Hon. George Jerningham Charge d'affaires until his return. The author of " Glances at Life" is, it seems, about to appear in a new character, as " The Man about Town." Having made a tolerably successful tour he again comes forward to re late his experiences and adventures, which are said to be at once "grave and gay, lively and severe ;" and now he paints A fck; and now a pick pocket —now portrays a rich , wag, ;m4 now a poor vagabond —n ow quizzes the L?ndoner..-6 iinct now stands up for them—now describes, quiet otthZ!giren suburbs,, and now revels in the elsgr,nt rioting of Regent.stieet. The . motto which he has taken 4'ronit, Rabelais will more fully`deseribe the various comic an d serioukopposing lights and 1114(jsii of the htimottrs of this author, LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE- CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JuivEg. ETON NIO NTE 3I . - ATTORNEY.GENERAL__tf. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, This was an information at the relation of Dr. Goodall, the Provost, and others, the Masters of Eton College, to restrain the Company from making a station at Slough for setting down or taking up passengers. The Solicitor-General was about to move by appointment for the injunc tion, when , . Mr. JACOB interposed, and stated that a demurrer had been fi'ed, and would be set down for argument as soon as possible. What object the motion bad, except to annoy the Ccmpay and disappoint the public, he was at a loss to imagine. Perhaps it was supposed the railroad visitors would not be so liberal of " salt" as those who could attend by other con veyance.—(Laughter.) The VICE-CHANCELLOR asked the Solicitor. General what wah the great and pressing danger which was apprehended ? The SOLICITOR•GENERAL proceeded to explain the nature of 'his motion. After some observations upon the national importance of pre serving the retirement of such a place as Eton the Learned Counsel said the ;Company obtained their Bill upon a compact with Parliament, which it was thought would protect the College from the evil conse quences of such an expeditious intercourse with London as a railroad would afford. Ito was applying, therefore, to prevent what might be considered a public nuisance. The Bill provided that no station, depot, landing.place, wharf, &c., should be made or constructed upon a portion of the railroad extending four miles in length through the towns of Sough, Langley, West Drayton, and Stoke, without the consent of the provost and fellows, of Eton, under their common seal, and that no devia. tion of the projected railroad, nor branch railroad, should be made without the Ike conse,it,;within three miles of Eton ; and that the Company should at their own expense keep a sufficient number of watchmen to prevent the scholars from coming on the railroad within the prohibited Emits. Such was the Parliamentary contract; and its evident mean_ ing was that no trains should be allowed to set down or take up pas sengers on that part of the railroad to which the prohibitions applied. His IloNourt remarked it was one thing to prevent the Eton boys from communicating with the railroad, and another thing to prohibit the public from getting down at any part they pleased. Mr. Jacon asked how was the Company to act ? Were they to lock up the trains as they passed through Slough ? The masters bade btter lock up the boys.--(Laughter.) The SoLicuroa.GENERAE said, if by any hocus pocus a station could be made for passengers from which the boys could be excluded, the obser vation would have weight. Mr. BACON, on the Line side as the Solicitor-General, said the provott and masters apprehended danger to the boys from the omnibuses and other conveyances which would be established between the town and the railroad.7-(Laughter.) His HONOUR, as an old Etonian, did not think there was much to fear on that account. Mr. BACON then alluded to the London rabble—(Laughter) —which would no doubt be present at the Montem. He meant by rabble that class of persons who were more industrious than honest, and who would no doubt avail themselves of the railroad conveyances to ply their voca tion at the Montem. The motion was refused, and it was arranged that the demurrer should be allowed with costs. Bell's Life in London of yesterday contained five of its large folio columns of particulars of Epsom Races, with a portrait of Amato, the winner of the Derby, drawn by Kettering. Bell's Life in London will have on Sunday, June 17, an engraving of the Ascot Cup and Queen's Plate. The price of Bell's Life in London is fivepence, Office, 170, Strand. George Robins announces his intention to give %in illuminated view in Regent.s , reet, preparatory to the sale of the snag_ nificent appendages at the mansion of the late Mr. Blicke, to-morrow When lighted up, the splendid suite has been assimilated to fairy land. We intend to be present and judge for ourselves. TITHES.—The WaleVord chronicle of Saturday last announces the lamentable fact, that on the previous Friday more blood was spilled in the distraining for tithes on the cattle of a farmer mined Portle. Three of the police employed on the occasion were so dreadfully beaten, that but little hope for the life of one of them is en tertained. Sergeant Hill's head is frightfully cut, the other is sub.con. stable Dickson, of the Rathcormac station ; and so disfigured is he that his acquaintances can scarcely recognise him. On either temple are deep gashes—his eyes are swollen beyond their sockets and he is other. wise terribly injured, with a hope that- lie will recover. The third is Sergeant Higgins of Ratheormac station who is also most severely wounded. Several other policemen were more or less injured by wounds produced by stones. AGITATION FOR ENDOWAIENTS.—On Saturday thegreat mustering of the Church Extensionists, which was for some time announced by public advertisement, took place in the Waterloo_ rooms, when, to the dismay of the leaders, it was attended by little more than one-half of the number which, a few weeks before, break fasted in the same rooms, to receive the report of the Deputation which had been sent to London to oppose the endowment scheme. At the, Voluntary meeting upwards of 400 persons were present, and, after breakfast, they adjourned to the large lecture-room above, in order to accommodate abcut two hundred more who were excluded from the breakfast tables from want of room. At the Church. Extension breakfast, according to the Courant's report, " there were about 300 persons pre sent ;" and, according to the Scottish Guardian's report, "considerably upwards of 200 ministers and elders were present." When it is con sidered that upwards of 300 ministers and elders from the country were in town attending the meetings of the General Assembly, and that the breakfast was held at an early hour in the morning, when all of them might have attended without interfering with their official duties, it wilk be apparent that, considered as a demonstration in favour of Church.. extension, it was a complete failure ; and that the great body of the re spectable inhabitants of this city are either hostile to the scheme, or ex tiemely cold in its support. The plan of agitation about to be adopted was the chief, if not the sole topic of declamation, and some very curious opinions were sported on the occasion.—Scolsman. O nlNl l3 n r ( o i m ay sgroe, wa s taking eveningl iangst; as the wif e o f M r. G. Stoaall: o f walk with another female, when about a quarter of a mile Item the town, she felt rather unwell, and went into the house at a Mr. "(lard' She then sat down on a chair, and expire 4in a few minutes 21/tecury. The very depressed state of th e hosier), trade ha . induced the 7 ,,, on otaarirers of Tewkbury to redu ce t h e wages of their tc:orkoten to a, very seriousdegree , and as the stock in hand with se_ twat, of the manufacturers is exceedingly heavy, it will probably be, so ne Mouths before their wagea will be enhanced,—Bristol Mercury.